Jacopo Pontormo II
Jacopo Pontormo II, Italian painter, was born. -1494
Marco Palmezzano
Marco Palmezzano, the Italian painter, died in Forli. -1539
Carlo Dolci
Carlo Dolci was born in Florence, Italy. He was the leading painter in Florence in the mid-17th century, and an exponent of the restrained style of Late Baroque comparable with Sacchi's Roman works. Dolci was extremely precocious and one of his finest pictures is the portrait, painted when he was 16, of Fra Ainolfo dei Bardi (1632, Florence, Pitti). Most of his later works are small devotional pictures often painted on copper in an extremely finicky and detailed manner. One of his best works is the Martyrdom of St Andrew of 1646 (Florence, Pitti), for which there is a sketch of 1643 in Birmingham. -1616
Gaspard Dughet
Gaspard Dughet, the Italian painter, died in Rome. -1675
Charles Errard
Charles Errard, the French painter, draughtsman, architect and writer, died in Rome. -1689
Jacques-Antoine Arlaud
Jacques-Antoine Arlaud, the Swiss miniature painter and collector, died in Geneva. -1743
Victor Orsel
Victor Orsel, the French painter, was born in Oullins. -1795
Alois Joseph Lichtenstein
Alois Joseph Lichtenstein, the art collector, was born in Vienna. -1796
Jacob Christoph Burckhardt
Jacob Christoph Burckhardt, the Swiss art historian, was born in Basle. -1818
Mather Brown
Mather Brown, the American painter, died in London. -1831
Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist painter, was born. -1844
Jean Charles Cazin
Jean Charles Cazin, the painter and ceramicist, was born in Samer. -1848
Charles Bayet
Charles Bayet, the Belgian administrator, and art historian, was born in Liége. -1849
John McComb
John McComb, the American architect, died in New York. -1853
Giacomo Grosso
Giacomo Grosso, the Italian painter, was born in Cambiano, near Turin. -1860
Karl Daubigny
Karl Daubigny, the French painter and printmaker, died in Auvers-sur-Oise. -1886
Dragisa Brasovan
Dragisa Brasovan, the Serbian architect, was born in Vrsac. -1887
Herman Munthe-Kaas
Herman Munthe-Kaas, the Norwegian architect and furniture designer was born in Christiania, now Oslo. -1890
Luis Cristino da Silva
Luis Cristino da Silva, the Portuguese architect, was born in Lisbon. -1896
Charles John Phipps
Charles John Phipps, the English archtect, died in London. -1897
Marie-Rose Bonheur
Marie-Rose Bonheur, the French painter and sculptor, died in Thomery, near Fontainebleau. -1899
Jaroslav Rössler
Jaroslav Rössler, the Czech photographer, was born in Smilov. -1902
Nils Ahrbom
Nils Ahrbom, the Swedish architect, was born in Hudiksvall. -1905
Ramkinker Baij
Ramkinker Baij, the Indian sculptor and painter, was born in Bankura. -1906
William Pitt
William Pitt, the Australian architect and politician, died in Melbourne. -1918
Muharren Turkeshi
Muharren Turkeshi, the Albanian sculptor, was born in Tiranë. -1933
Nobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki, the Japanese photographer, was born in Tokyo. -1940
Humberto Calzada
Humberto Calzada, the Cuban painter, was born in Havana. -1944
Robert Capa
Robert Capa, the American photographer of Hungarian birth, died in Thai-Binh, Vietnam. -1954
Robert Combas
Robert Combas, the French painter, draughtsman and writer, was born in Lyon. -1957
Robert Combas
Robert Combas, the French painter, draughtsman and writer, was born in Lyon. -1957
Daniel Nicholas Flavin, Jr.
Daniel Nicholas Flavin, Jr. created his first work made from nothing but a single-standard eight-foot yellow fluorescent tube titled "The Diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi)". -1963
Johannes Itten
Johannes Itten, the Swiss painter, and textile designer, died in Zurich. -1967
Carrillo Gil house in Mexico City
The Mexican government acquired the Carrillo Gil house in Mexico City, along with a set of paintings, drawings and etchings for the purpose of creating the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. -1972
The Metropolitan Museum of New York
The Metropolitan Museum of New York opened an exhibit on the Annenberg collection, which included works from Renoir, Monet, Cézanne and Gauguin. -1991
The Irish Museum of Modern Art
The Irish Museum of Modern Art opened at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. -1991
Singer Sargent
The painting "Spanish Dancer" by John Singer Sargent was sold at Sotheby's New York for $7,592,500. -1994
The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art presents the exhibit "Mutant Materials from Contemporary Design". The mutation of materials offers designers and manufacturers a whole new world of possibilities. -1995
Zurich gallery
Max K. Bollag, owner of the seven Picasso paintings that were stolen from a Zurich gallery, stated that the paintings were not insured. The police reported no clues to the theft. -1995
Museo del Prado
The Museo del Prado in Madrid obtains 1, 276 million pesetas from the sale of real estate properties from the Manuel Villaescusa inheritance. the money will be used to buy works of art. -1998
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